Uninstall Office 2010 starts, reboots pc and did nothing ?

I am trying to uninstall an unattended installed version of office 2010 Pro plus on a test pc and it seems to do nothing.

I see in the processes that it starts the setup.exe located locally on the target pc, the setup itself does next to nothing cpu wise, after a few minutes the pc reboots (can you disable that in pdq deploy or is that the setup.exe from Office 2010 doing that, the xml specifically sais no reboot)

After the reboot i still see the complete installation of office 2010 untouched.

We did not install office 2010 to it's default directory but the setup shouldn't have trouble with that ?

I can push installs to the same machine so it isn't a problem with the necessary rights.

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I am not sure where I got it from, but PDQ put out a PowerShell script a while ago that uninstalls all versions of Microsoft Office. You might want to try their PowerShell script and see if that works, although you should definitely run it on a test machine before you roll the script into production:

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AUTHOR: Kris Powell, Admin ArsenalDATE: 1/28/2016

This will attempt to uninstall Microsoft Office for all versions. Please test in your environments before rolling out for production.

This is what I use. Make an xml file and put it in the same directory as setup.exe, run the package.

In regard to your question about why it works locally for you but not through deploy, is probably something trying to run out of appdata directory. Antivirus could be preventing it or permissions on the remote machine. Or the file doesn't exist under the context of appdata for the user you are deploying as.